I watch the rain and dream of rainforests...

[msfledermaus]

...I love this weather right now. Warm but not too warm. Dark and cloudy. Rainy on and off. Beautiful stuff. I look outside and keep thinking about the rainforest I went to in February, next to Mount Kilauea. That was definitely one of the most stunning and variable landscapes I'd ever seen--all that lushness graduating to sharp rock and sulpher and steam and down in stone torrents to the ocean with the sea fuming and boiling away...totally fantastic:)

Every once in a while I check the Mount Kilauea website and look at the camera on one of the vents. Nothing much is happening, but I can't help looking anyway. I just enjoy volcanos, apparently.

...Which makes me think of that little island near Yemen, where a different eruption's happened, and much less benign than the Hawaiian one...I feel a little guilty for liking volcanos at the moment, since it sounds like there were some fatalities. *looks a little ashamed* I'm not the sort of person that enjoys that sort of thing, I just like big forces of nature, sometimes. Maybe it's just feeling lucky about being near something huge and powerful that really doesn't give a crap about people, and going away safe with pictures and maybe a close-call story to tell your friends about. (I feel that way about Lake Superior too--It's this huge energetic force that seems to be well beyond humanity, even though it's a major shipping route.)

Now I get to go back to my quiet door post today, humming, "Born to Love Volcanos" by the Dead Milkmen for the rest of the day...

Comments

[jennywho.livejournal.com]

I heart the Dead Milk Men. :)

Saw it on PBS...

[buscemi.livejournal.com]

Almost every time I see a post by weekendpbs, I think of that song. Oh, and here are some related comments:

http://suburbangothic.livejournal.com/242902.html

:)

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Stan and I have been known to walk outside and watch tornadic weather and winds. We're lucky we haven't been killed, seeing we're obviously stipid.

[laurapalmer813.livejournal.com]

Oooooo I loooove volcanoes! I watched this documentary of the 1902 eruption of Mount Pelee like 5 times (cause they kept playing it! They love me!). My husband started singing that song... :)

[banana.livejournal.com]

I've been up Vesuvius. The crater was a bit sulphorous, but frankly I expected more of a hellish inferno (or sudden death by eruption).